Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow, the emptiness to its cause.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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